Roman law in medieval Europe by Paul Vinogradoff(
Book
)98
editions published
between
1909
and
2010
in
5
languages
and held by
1,691 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

The growth of the manor by Paul Vinogradoff(
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)111
editions published
between
1905
and
2010
in
3
languages
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1,660 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The Growth of the Manor (1905) is one of the key works of the eminent expatriate Russian jurist, Paul Vinogradoff (1854-1925).
Expanding on his Oxford lectures, this book attempts to re-establish coherence within English medieval history after the critiques
of scholars including Frederic Maitland had supposedly obscured the historical narrative. Tracing the evolution of the manor,
Vinogradoff demonstrates how feudal law and tenurial relationships evolved out of more primitive systems of male descent.
He claims there was demonstrable progress from a system of communal action and responsibility to one of personal rights and
subjection that can be traced through what he calls the 'Celtic', 'Old English' and 'Feudal' periods. The latter system was
secured in the Norman Conquest of 1066, although the former continued to exist underneath it. Of particular interest to those
studying the Domesday Book, this is also an important text for medievalists and legal historians

Villainage in England; essays in English mediaeval history by Paul Vinogradoff(
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)74
editions published
between
1892
and
2012
in
English and Undetermined
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1,449 WorldCat member
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worldwide
Russian historian and jurist Sir Paul Vinogradoff (1854-1925) maintained throughout his life a serious scholarly interest
in the history of Great Britain, his adopted country. Elected to a professorship at Oxford in 1903, to the British Academy
in 1905, and knighted for services to the realm in increasing Anglo-Russian understanding during the war (1917), Vinogradoff
demonstrates in this book of 1892 both his interest in feudal England and his historiographic approach, which relied on detailed
research using primary sources to examine individuals, communities, and social structures. Divided into two essays - 'The
Peasantry of the Feudal Age' and 'The Manor and the Village Community' - the work used England's extensive feudal records
to draw a general character of the period. Villainage will interest students of English or European mediaeval history and
scholars of mediaeval legal history and of developments in nineteenth-century historiography

English society in the eleventh century; essays in English mediaeval history by Paul Vinogradoff(
Book
)42
editions published
between
1908
and
2011
in
English
and held by
1,205 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
It was the time of the settlement of the Danes, the overthrow of the Anglo-Saxon system, and the beginnings of Norman rule."
Drawing on The Domesday Book, the great medieval historian considers the sweeping issues of mercenaries, feudalism, franchises,
law, husbandry, peasants, landowners, free tenants, and more